The Lordship of England: Royal Wardships and Marriages in English Society and Politics, 1217-1327

by Scott L. Waugh and Scott L Waugh

Book Overview

This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite. The royal rights, known as feudal incidents, included custody of a tenant's lands when he died leaving minor heirs, the arrangement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601917
• ISBN13: 9780691601915
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"